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Apple and Blackberry Crumble with Rosemary, Cinnamon and Rosehip

05/10/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

Apple and Blackberry Crumble with Rosemary, Cinnamon and Rosehip -- Seasonal Food -- The Seasonal Table | https://theseasonaltable.co.uk/sweet/apple-blackberry-crumble-rosemary-cinnamon-rosehip

Autumn is here. It’s now dark when we get up in the morning, and we only have a couple of hours of daylight left after work. We’re wearing coats and boots again, watching the leaves slowly fill our gutters, and inching ever closer to lighting our woodburners. We opened the curtains this morning to find…

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Apple Crisps

28/09/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

Apple Crisps -- Jar of apple crisps -- Seasonal Food | https://theseasonaltable.co.uk/sweet/apple-crisps/

Apple season has arrived here in Somerset, and the fruits on each of our trees are busy ripening in quick succession. The orchard equivalent of a musical canon. There is a wonderful mix of eaters and cookers. Some are great for roasting, bubbling down into a compote, or turning into chutney. Others are best crunched…

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Beetroot Leaf and Potato Gratin

21/09/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

Beetroot Leaf and Potato Gratin -- Seasonal Food | https://theseasonaltable.co.uk/savoury/beetroot-leaf-potato-gratin/

The last of our beetroot have reached the size of Bramley apples and are starting to turn a little woody. They need harvesting quickly before they reach the point of no return and end up on the compost heap. So, at the weekend, we pulled up a huge basketful, leaving just a couple of the…

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Chanterelle, Kale and Purple Sage Tagliatelle

07/09/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

Chanterelle, Kale and Purple Sage Tagliatelle -- serve with a glass of cold wine | https://theseasonaltable.co.uk/savoury/chanterelle-cavalo-nero-purple-sage-pappardelle/

Back when we were living in the city, we borrowed a scrappy and crumpled old book from the local library called Urban Dreams, Rural Realities by Daniel Butler and Bel Crewe. It was about a couple who had moved from London to the Welsh countryside to live life on a smallholding and we were curious…

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Mulberry, Goats Cheese, Rocket Leaf and Fennel Toasts

31/08/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

Mulberry, Goats Cheese, Rocket Leaf and Fennel Toasts -- Seasonal Food | https://theseasonaltable.co.uk/savoury/mulberry-goats-cheese-rocket-leaf-fennel-toasts/

We tried our first mulberries at a family barbecue on a sweltering summer day. There was a sprawling black mulberry tree by the garden wall, crooked and aged. It looked like something out of a fairy story. Enveloped below its heart-shaped leaves were fruits so ripe they were falling off the branches and smooshing on…

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Garden Soup and Carrot Leaf Pesto

10/08/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

Garden Soup and Carrot Leaf Pesto -- Seasonal Food | https://theseasonaltable.co.uk/savoury/garden-soup-and-carrot-leaf-pesto/

Every couple of weeks during the summer and early autumn, we make a big pot of soup with fresh vegetables and herbs from the garden. Whatever is in plentiful supply at the time. That way none of our surplus veg go to waste. We usually squirrel some portions away in little freezer tubs, ready for…

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Herbed Omelette with Griddled Courgette, Halloumi, and Nasturtiums

30/07/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

Herbed Omelette with Griddled Courgette, Halloumi, and Nasturtiums -- In a skillet -- Seasonal Food | https://theseasonaltable.co.uk/brunch/herbed-omelette-with-griddled-courgette-halloumi-and-nasturtiums/

One of the lovely things about growing our own food is being able to pop outside and literally pick our own meals. Breakfasts, lunches and dinners are built around whatever is flourishing or newly appearing in the veg beds, orchard and herb patch at any given point in time. Yesterday morning, before the rain came,…

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Beetroot, Cocoa and Sea Salt Cake

22/07/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

Beetroot, Cocoa and Sea Salt Cake -- Seasonal Food | https://theseasonaltable.co.uk/sweet/beetroot-cocoa-and-sea-salt-cake/

This year we have two different varieties of beetroot seeded alongside the rainbow carrots, chard and parsnips in the vegetable patch. The classic looking Rhonda, which we grow every year for its well-flavoured, deep magenta bulbs; and the Italian Barabietola di Chioggia, which produces beautiful rose red roots with fabulous pink and white striped flesh. …

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Gooseberry Soda

15/07/2017 By The Seasonal Table Leave a Comment

In the dappled shade of an enormous cooking apple tree sits the gooseberry patch. Three sprawling bushes that produce an abundance of bright green, delicately striped berries. They dangle from the branches like Japanese lanterns. Neighbouring the gooseberries at the moment is an untamed bed of nettles (that we haven’t had a chance to strim…

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Cherry, Vanilla and Cinnamon Clafoutis

08/07/2017 By The Seasonal Table 1 Comment

Cherry, Vanilla and Cinnamon Clafoutis -- Serve with coffee -- Seasonal Food | https://theseasonaltable.co.uk/sweet/cherry-vanilla-cinnamon-clafoutis/

We have had a bumper cherry crop this year. The two trees in the orchard have been so laden with fruit that their branches have arched and drooped with the weight of the hefty bunches. The ruby cherries, speckled with flecks of pale orange and yellow, are beautifully sweet, and full of juice. As the…

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We're Kathy and Tom and we live in the hills of rural Somerset, England. The Seasonal Table is our blog about slow food and slow living. It is a journal of seasonal recipes, featuring organically home grown, wild-harvested, or locally sourced ingredients, and a collection of smallholding stories and activities. Read More…

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Worms! We invested in a wormery at the start of th Worms! We invested in a wormery at the start of the year as a way of making vermicompost (a much more powerful and nutrient-rich product than that which can be produced in our main compost bins). Initially we were a little downhearted about it - the worms were slow to get going, there was a couple of unpleasant fruit-fly cloud incidents, and the stack of plastic trays isn’t the most attractive addition to the garden, but we kept adding small amounts of shredded paper and chopped kitchen scraps, and suddenly the worms got into their stride. Our wiggly pals have now made several trays of dark and deeply rich compost, which we’ve sprinkled onto the veg patch to boost the growth of the crops, as well as a liquid feed that can be tapped off as needed. It’s a brilliant way to put our food waste to good use and put it back into the growing system. We might have to add wormery number 2 to our Christmas list!
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A rare picture of the two of us together, which we A rare picture of the two of us together, which we took for our Christmas feature (A Somerset Festive Feast) in this month’s issue of BBC Countryfile Magazine. The article includes a few of our favourite winter recipes from pan-fried chicken (with crispy sage, bacon, and apple balsamic vinegar) to poached pears with bay, honey, cinnamon and home brewed cider.
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The sheep are very partial to wild blackberry leav The sheep are very partial to wild blackberry leaves. At this time of year, when the grass growth slows and hay is the main feed for the flock, the green foliage makes a particularly welcome fresh snack. One of the reasons we chose to keep Shetland sheep was because of their foraging abilities- they certainly haven’t let us down!
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As the cooler weather makes itself comfortable, we As the cooler weather makes itself comfortable, we’re lighting the log burners in the cottage almost every day. This means regular - often torchlit - wellie-booted trips to the logstores to fill up the wood baskets. There is a jumble of seasoned wood in the stores, but ash and beech dominate the pile at the moment. Luckily they are good ones to have; they split well, burn well (for a good length of time), and make a beautiful flame pattern. Definitely worth all the hard work of chopping, splitting, and stacking.
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A hidden nest. The egremont russet apple tree has A hidden nest. The egremont russet apple tree has now shed all but a clinging handful of curling leaves and golden fruit. Tucked among the arching branches, and looking very much a part of the tree, is this tiny nest. It is neatly woven with white hair and moss and decorated with lichen to match the tree perfectly. Its inhabitants are long flown, but we have a sneaking suspicion that it may have belonged to the chaffinches that we so often see flitting around the orchard...
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A few of the chickens gathered at the old plum tre A few of the chickens gathered at the old plum tree - a favourite flock meeting location. Most are still in the process of fluffing up after their annual moult, and none are laying at the moment, although we still check the nest boxes each evening, hopeful that one day soon the brightly-coloured eggs will start appearing again.
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